A Hall of Bronzed Icons, Longing for Golden Days Time and timing have not been kind to a once-renowned but now obscure shrine to some of America's greatest achievers. We are talking here of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, a pantheon of...

Lazio, Out of Limelight, Is Still in the Thick of It He was rocketed to national attention, and even people around the world were interested in what he was involved in. But after the outcome, he swiftly sank into the political shadows. It...

Larry Marshall said the private stable on 78th Street near Dumont Avenue where he kept his two horses, Petrone and Red Velvet, didn't have a name. ''You do that,'' he said about naming, ''and the city comes after you.'' The city came anyway. At...

It has been called tacky and ill conceived, and likened, derogatorily, to Coney Island. But fans of the Sunnyside Arch have succeeded in obtaining money so that the structure, with its hundreds of tiny light bulbs, can once again light up the night...

Borough President Claire Shulman of Queens asked yesterday for the resignation of Terri Thomson, her representative on the Board of Education, saying she was disappointed that Ms. Thomson had refused to support Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's candidate...

A state agency's plans to install 10 temporary generators around the city to meet power needs next summer is facing staunch opposition, particularly in Queens, where community and business leaders fear a setback to development taking place along the...

To the Editor: Re ''Preaching Gospel of Rebirth in Jamaica'' (news article, Nov. 27): There are three components to Jamaica's revitalization. First, a generation ago, the public sector went into Jamaica to jump-start development with a $1...

December 4, 2000, Monday

School overcrowding has become so bad in Queens that Borough President Claire Shulman has called for a Marshall Plan of new school building. She also convenes what she calls War Room meetings each month to ensure that no school construction project...